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dylan kane
dylan kane
2,772 Points
Posted by dylan kane
dylan kane
2,772 Points

Can you make social media sites like facebook, twitter, or youtube with javascript and node js?

I'd like to make a social media site where you make an account, blog, friend people, usual social media site stuff. I know ruby is usually used for this, but is it a good idea to use java and node js? i heard node js was better with servers. If javascript is a good path to follow for this, I would appreciate it if someone could provide me with a link on github to someone who did it to see their process, but thats only if you want to. Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Wesley Wright
Wesley Wright
26,793 Points

You can indeed use Node for this. You will probably want to use Express to set up an API. You would probably also want to use a front-end framework such as Angular.js or Ember to set up the blogs and other functionality you are after. Finally, you would need a place to host everything. Firebase is a good option, but there are plenty of others.

User authentication is an important consideration as well... I haven't dove much into that at this point, but it's on my todo list.

This might be a good place to start: http://scottksmith.com/blog/2014/10/05/twitatron-building-a-production-web-app-with-node/

Some of my more recent studies have involved Node and Express. The README's of these repo's have links to the tutorials I used:

https://github.com/IAMZERG/Node-Postgres-Todo-Frontend https://github.com/IAMZERG/Node-Postgres-Todo-Backend/

https://github.com/IAMZERG/REST-API https://github.com/IAMZERG/REST-CLIENT

Good luck!